Lil Tay, an internet celebrity with 2.7 million followers on Instagram, is known for her rapper-like swagger. Past videos show her cursing, trash-talking other internet celebrities, and boasting about buying expensive cars.

In the spring, a series of stories sought to answer several obvious questions raised by her celebrity status. Is her family caring for her? Where are her parents? Why is she hanging out with Jake Paul? Who's managing her career? Shouldn't she be in school?

Around that time, a person who claims to have edited Lil Tay's videos for YouTube and Instagram leaked a video of her brother apparently feeding her lines for the camera. A person close to the leaker told INSIDER that the video was published on Instagram after Lil Tay's management team cut them off from her inner circle.

Since her initial Instagram deletion in June, Lil Tay has surfaced only a few times, most prominently to pay tribute to her "father figure" XXXTentacion— a 20-year-old rapper who allegedly beat and strangled his pregnant girlfriend, and was shot and killed that month.

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